Motorola Moto G Stylus
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- Okidoky
- NZu
- 16 Jul 2021
I'm very pleased with this phone. The stylus allows for fine clicking without having to zoom everything, great to detailed UIs. Plenty fast enough but could be faster.
Camera is surprisingly good, even in low light.
A soft case is a must. Screen protector not needed.
Android 11 and regular security updates.
Tons of room on this thing.
Incredible stereo sound quality.
Bluetooth works great. Sensors work good. GPS is accurate.
Previous phone was Nexus 6. Grown to have become big Motorola fan. Durable build.
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- Anonymous
- IbG
- 15 Jun 2021
Anonymous, 14 Apr 2021It's the worst moto phone I've ever had. Dang jun... moreYou bought a bad phone. Mine works just fine. I've had it almost a year never had any problems with it at all
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- Anonymous
- 0YA
- 21 May 2021
Anonymous, 26 Jan 2021This phone is absolutely the biggest p.o.s I've ever h... moreI feel like that's your bad lol... It's a $199 phone... If you've spent $600 then you got scammed somewhere along the way, OR you bought it, thought that a $200 phone acting like a $200 phone was a glitch, bought it again and experienced the same thing, and THEN instead of thinking "wow, this is a $200 phone and it's just why cheap things are cheap" you think "wow, this $200 phone should perform the same way an $800 phone does, must be another glitch, lemme buy it once more" 👀👀👀👀 dude... It's a budget ass phone and for the price it's actually an exceptionally smooth running phone... If you but a 77' Ford Pinto and get all bent because it doesn't drive like a Porsche that's on you.
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- Android 11
- q9F
- 04 May 2021
Arod, 16 Dec 2020will this get an android 11 im just saying so yall dont ge... moreRecently was upgraded to 11.
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- Bruce
- q9F
- 25 Apr 2021
Awesome phone for $199 unlocked! And 128 GB storage! Some other brands charge $200 just for a 128 GB upgrade. The speakers sound great. Takes great pictures. Love the stylus. Those who complain about call quality need to educate themselves on VoLTE and how to set their phone up with it. All the mobile companies are migrating to VoLTE. If your call quality is bad, you probably need to set this up. You won't regret it!
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- Anonymous
- ILw
- 19 Apr 2021
This is the worse phone ever. It's a pos. Play a game and it gets so hot you can't hold it. Never keeps a signal everywhere I go. Junk junk junk!
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- Anonymous
- ILw
- 14 Apr 2021
It's the worst moto phone I've ever had. Dang junk gets very hot when playing a game and looses all signal. Don't buy it because it truly does suck.
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- yeeyee
- 47Z
- 07 Apr 2021
Mr, 04 Apr 2021Why on earth anybody would pay $600 for this?!Why would someone pay 600$ for something that is 299?!
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- Joo joo
- Ycr
- 04 Apr 2021
I got this phone for free with my new carrier and gonna keep it as a backup phone, in case something goes wrong with my Pixel 2 xl .
Not a bad phone in general only if the price is below $200.
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- Mr
- Ycr
- 04 Apr 2021
Anonymous, 26 Jan 2021This phone is absolutely the biggest p.o.s I've ever h... moreWhy on earth anybody would pay $600 for this?!
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- Anonymous
- r2q
- 30 Mar 2021
armanke13, 09 Feb 2020battery charging only 10w? that's lacking.. it'll be so slowit has turbo charging when connected to proper cable
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- Anonymous
- r2q
- 30 Mar 2021
Larry D, 09 Feb 2020No more dedicated microSD slot, no more NFC. The G5 Plus wa... moreit has a micro sd slot
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- Kimmyann
- kpT
- 27 Mar 2021
7 months ago I bought a Motorola g stylus and I kept hearing the retin-raves how good the phone was yes the camera was awesome the memory was great but 7 months down the road my whole entire phone crashed on me meeting my memory I tried to reset it I tried to do a factory reset I had to take all my apps out in order to keep the memory down it still wasn't working so I go to my phone provider told him what's going on and they told me that the memory in my phone completely crashed it fried itself this is the second Motorola I've had in a year I am never going with Motorola ever again until they fix their problems it is the worst phone I have ever seen I spent almost $300 on that stupid phone for it to crash on me
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- anne
- 4{M
- 22 Feb 2021
I wouldn't say I like the Motorola Moto G stylus. First, I can't see notifications of both calls or texts. I have to keep going to setting notification every day to turn off to on every day. It really annoys me. Second, the phone will freeze for more than a min. I can't believe I wasted $270 dollars. I don't recommend this to anyone. If I had to rate the phone, I would have it 4/10 since it good life battery and camera quality.
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- Anonymous
- 4Hx
- 16 Feb 2021
I've had this phone for a little under a year (I got it in the spring last year about a month after it came out), and have had a lot of time to decide how I like it.
Functionally, it's great. My previous phone had issues receiving calls, and this gets them all the first time. Texts and calls are timely and clear. No dropped calls (on MY end, at least). I don't use it for much more than a communications device, so I leave almost no apps running in the background. I also don't use wi-fi all the time, but when I do, it connects well, and transmission speeds are excellent.
Data is turned off, as is GPS and anything else I'm not immediately using. When they're needed, they work just fine, without any lags or issues. Apps come up very quickly. My lack of using data and wi-fi means I get virtually no ads.
My major time use is a couple of card games in the same app, and texting with my wife. Phone calls come in a distant third.
Considering I don't keep anything I'm not actively using turned on, the battery life is pretty good. I only recharge it about once every five or six days, and use a slow charger so the phone's battery doesn't heat up and shorten the life. I also wait until I only have about 5% left before recharging (unless I'm going to be out the next day). Since I spend most of my time at the computer, having it plugged into the phone is simple, and keeps the charge up when I need it.
The cameras are excellent, with rapid capture so there's very little blurring, and excellent low-light adaptation. The low light color adjustments are a touch over-saturated, but that's easily fixed in any photo app. The full light colors are spot-on. Flash isn't over-exposing and it does well reducing reflections of flash in images with reflective objects. I haven't done any video with it, so can't speak to that, but I'd expect it to be of equivalent performance and quality in medium to bright light. Low light might be an issue due to a 30-60 FPS capture rate, but admittedly, that's speculation on my part.
The Bluetooth is fairly powerful. I use the same headset between my computer and my phone (not at the same time, of course), and my computer's Bluetooth doesn't carry as far from it as my phone's will. The sounds are clear and full, and largely will be determined by the quality of the Bluetooth headset you use.
There are two things that I don't like about it. The first is the complete lack of notifications without some kind of interaction. There's no LED notification light, and I miss calls or texts because the sleep screen only lasts a few seconds before going blank again. The proximity feature is camera/motion-based, but isn't very consistent (I can wave my hand in front of the thing, and it doesn't always wake up, but if I pick it up, it will). So I have to keep my phone where I can see it if someone is calling. Otherwise, I don't see it, and don't respond to it.
Fortunately, most of the calls I get are from people I don't know, and don't want to talk to.
I also don't like that it doesn't come with a user-replaceable battery. There's no excuse for that.
Overall, I'm satisfied by the phone. Were I to rate it on a five star scale, I'd give it about a three and a half stars. One star away for no user-replaceable battery, and half a star for a very broken sleep-screen notification system. The price point listed for a new model (of the 2020 type) is actually very good, so I'd bump that up to four and a half stars, because you do get a lot of phone for a very small price today.
I'll admit my usage is probably very atypical of smartphone users, which is why I explain how I use it. My unusually long battery life is a result of always turning off components I don't actively use. And I do NOT run more than a few apps at a time, and generally close them after use. Running a lot of apps at the same time will also reduce battery life and will slow down any phone. I've never noticed any significant lags from the few times I've run a large number of apps at once.
For the feature set, and the suggested 2020 model price, I consider this a superior mid-level phone. If you need/want more, I suggest you go look for more expensive phones. This has a lot more than most phones in its price range. With a case and a tempered glass screen protector, it's durable and well built. Properly taken care of, I expect it will last for many more years than overly abused flagship models will last.
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- Fallyntalyn
- 4fx
- 11 Feb 2021
This is a decent phone for the price point, but going from a Galaxy S10 to this was a terrible mistake. I've had this phone for about 3 months and already:
-It's terribly laggy, I have to restart it every other day or it is just un-usable
-Service is terrible, even in the same locations I was before, I got better service and faster load times on my Galaxy.
-The Moto Gestures are great, I really love being able to turn on the flashlight and camera without touching any buttons, but the flashlight turns off after about 1.5 minutes, even if you're actively using the phone, and I've yet to find a way to make that stop.
-The adaptive brightness on the screen is terrible. If the sensor is not facing the light source, the screen dims drastically.
-The stylus is fine for point and click things, but if you're trying to use it as a pen, it takes the screen 1 to 2 seconds to realize you're moving and not just pressing and holding, so subtle movements are not possible.
-It does not have a current version of Android (I'm on Verizon), so:
----folders in the app drawer not a thing
----sorting your apps by anything other than A-Z not a thing
----no mass selecting of apps (like if you want to delete a few at a time, not happening).
-The ringtone and notification tones are not linked, but the media and notification sounds are. Therefore, if you want your notification noises off, you have to have the media sound all the way down, instead of being linked to the ringer like every other phone I've ever had.
This is not my first Moto phone, I wanted it because I've really enjoyed their phones in the past and it was a much more reasonable price than the Samsung ($250 vs $800 I paid for my S10). However, I'm deeply regretting this choice and will be paying it off to get rid of it ASAP.
My recommendation: DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE if you're used to a Samsung. You'll be sorely disappointed. However, if you're coming from a vastly cheaper phone, it's pretty good. Just don't expect to change the world with this phone.
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- 4sj
- 03 Feb 2021
Best phone ever.
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- Anonymous
- q1%
- 26 Jan 2021
This phone is absolutely the biggest p.o.s I've ever had in my life, reception is absurd can't make calls at all, and if it does decide to connect it takes about 2 minutes to top it off I had to take the phone back wait on the new one from the factory and still has the same issues, I spent about 600 dollars in all and have yet to be happy with this product